How to participate in RUR Rankings?

In order to participate in RUR Rankings and its further editions your university will need to provide its raw data to our partner Clarivate Analytics through Global Institutional Profiles Project (GIPP). It is an annual survey aimed to cover 1000 higher education intuitions all over the world. GIPP Project provides all the data used in RUR Rankings and participation in this project is required to be included in RUR Rankings.

To participate in Round University Ranking (RUR) your university will need to submit a short application, including the following details:

Currently, all application will be considered in GIPP 2019 and RUR 2020. It means that if your university send the above details now, you can submit institutional data in spring 2019. After that stage, your university will appear in RUR Rankings 2020 editions.

If your university is already GIPP Participant, you will receive the notification on GIPP Portal opening in early April 2018 with your login/password combinations. If the contact person of you university was changed, please send the details of new contact person to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Key benefits for your university to take part in Round University Ranking (RUR):

• 20 indicators that cover all key areas of university activities: teaching, research, international diversity and financial sustainability.

• Detailed statistics of all institutions, which includes user-friendly profiles with both ranks and scores on each of 20 indicators and separately measured 4 key areas.